The Dalai Lama has been living in exile in India since 1959, when an uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet failed. India is ...

NANJING - Remains believed to be part of the skull of Xuanzang, an eminent monk in ancient China, are available for public worship in East China's Jiangsu province.

A mud statue of an ancient monk, originally believed to be that of a Tibetan god, was discovered by Chinese scholars in Xianrenya Grotto in Tianshui, northwest China's Gansu Province. The monk ...

Amid China's growing interest in religion, an abbot uses TV, films and the Web to market an ancient temple made famous by a Jet Li movie. Kung Fu Monks Go Modern - Los Angeles Times ...

Editor’s Note: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. A young Shaolin monk runs horizontally across ...

Scientists and hospital staff at the Meander Medical Center in the Netherlands used a CT scanner to reveal the mummified body of a Chinese monk inside a statue of Buddha dating back to between ...

Once upon a time there were Shaolin warrior monks at the monastery in Sun Song forest, which is on one of China's sacred mountains, about 70km from Luoyang, the ancient capital of Henan Province.

China’s Shaolin monks are known for their incredible acrobatics. This photographer captured them in action. Amy Gunia, CNN. Sat, May 4, ... worshippers and fighters, conflicts and catastrophes in ...

He captures the ancient against the modern, the curious amid the day-to-day and accentuates the familiarity of strangers. In 2016, McCurry came under fire when one of his photos in an exhibition ...